Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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I take the NASA physical every year.
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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
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Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
